Films from CEE Countries to Feature at the Sundance Film Festival 2020

The Sundance Film Festival 2020 is about to take place in Utah, USA, starting from January 23 to February 2, 2020. This festival is going to display eight Sundance movies from CEE countries and the categories include:

The World Cinema Documentary Competition

The Spotlight section

The International Narrative Shorts Competition

The Animated Shorts Competition

Leavn Akin’s And Then We Danced by and German/Romanian Alexander Nanau’s Collective was chosen to be displayed in the Spotlight category.

Additionally, Romanian majority co-production Acasă, My Home by Radu Ciorniciuc will be displayed in the World Cinema Documentary Competition and will have its world premiere along with 12 other films.

Another Lithuanian minority coproduction The Earth Is Blue as an Orange by Iryna Tsilyk will also have its world premiere in the World Cinema Documentary Competition.

Sh*t Happens (Czech Republic, France, Slovakia)

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